According to a report published Sunday, the version of the Samsung Galaxy S6 coming to the Philippines will feature a Dual SIM slot. The report adds that this was requested specifically by Samsung Philippines as the international version of the phone comes with a single SIM slot only. Both slots on the Philippines model will work with a nano SIM card, but only one of them will support 4G LTE. The Philippines variant of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, on the other hand, will support a single SIM card.

The first versions of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge to be released will be the 32GB and 64GB variants in black and white. This is expected to take place on April 10th. The 128GB models will be rolled out in the Philippines at an unspecified date in the future.

On the off-chance that some how you failed to see the official specs, both models feature a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display with resolution of 1440 x 2560. That works out to a rather tasty 577ppi pixel density. Driving both models is a 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7420 CPU built using the 14nm process. The Mali T-760 GPU is crunching the graphics and there is 3GB of RAM on board. A 16MP rear-facing camera features an aperture of f/1.9 which means it can take great pictures under low-light conditions. A 5MP "selfie snapper" adorns the front of the handset. Android 5.0.2 is pre-installed out of the box.

One difference between the two models can be found with the battery. The Samsung Galaxy S6 features a 2550mAh cell while the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is powered by a 2600mAh battery.

posted on Mar 01, 2015, 5:36 PM 2

Posts: 310; Member since: May 31, 2014

THEY DONT WANT TO. They just want to play the expensive Apple game.
The CEO said to the carriers "our customers will be ready when you are".
For what? For paying too much money for data due to the lack of storage.
Having microSD, if my phone drops dead, I remove it and I have my files.
No backups all the time.
As for the battery that in 10 min is charging for 4 hours of battery life,
if for 36 hours (idk for 100%) it will need, let's say 1h30min.
I can charge my phone from 0-100% in 5 sec by swapping batteries
and use it right away. Without searching charging spot every 4 hours
or wall hugging.

posted on Mar 01, 2015, 5:55 PM 4

Posts: 297; Member since: Jan 28, 2014

+ The fact that if you want a new battery you have to spend time and extra money, go to the Samsung store and pay €60 for the battery + €50 for the work, exonerating the stupids that yell: "Yey Samsung, take my money!" Instead of buying it for €40 from an e-store + €6 for the shipping and replace it easily by yourself.

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posted on Mar 01, 2015, 11:30 PM 0

Posts: 379; Member since: Sep 26, 2013

I'm from the Philippines. This means the PH will be part of the first 20 countries for GALAXY S6 and S6 Edge initial rollout (April 10th)? Dual nano SIM slots is good but I'd rather have micro SD card slot instead. I guess I have to wait for 128 GB model. I'm so sad no dual SIM slot for S6 Edge. :3

posted on Mar 01, 2015, 8:55 PM 1

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posted on Mar 01, 2015, 9:31 PM 0

Posts: 3363; Member since: Jul 22, 2014

My guess would be Php45,000 at most for the S6 128gb and Php54,000 for S6 edge 128gb. Since iPhone 6+ is at Php48,000 in online stores, I'd like to think that Sammy still want to have lower price than the iPhones.

posted on Mar 02, 2015, 8:56 PM 0

Posts: 1276; Member since: Mar 22, 2014

The absence of SD slot bothers me, 32 gb is just...tiny via today's standards.......64 and 128 gb variant is out of the equation here because we all know they're rip offs.....Why Samsung , Why???
This'll make HTC get more love

posted on Mar 01, 2015, 6:18 PM 1

Posts: 3061; Member since: Apr 28, 2014

It's becasue the mem in the s6 is 2.7 times faster than m9 and iphomes and so on, I..e they not rip you off. It's supper hi end mem they also offer 100gb cloud for free, sd cards are slow and crap linking the sd card mem to the controller will hav made the phone crap

posted on Mar 01, 2015, 8:27 PM 0

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posted on Mar 01, 2015, 9:42 PM 3

Posts: 3363; Member since: Jul 22, 2014

Maybe he's buying that cheap kingston sd card clone for $10. People should be aware that sd cards are also cloned rampantly and there's a big difference in buying orginal sandisk from generic chinese branded cards.

posted on Mar 04, 2015, 8:48 AM 0

Posts: 370; Member since: Nov 15, 2013

Pretty much now encouraged to get the HTC or Sony at worse, if there's no Samsung "Premium" that offers a memory expansion. I don't care how fast the new internal memory is. I want that ability to swap memory cards to my other devices instantly.
And my biggest problem really is not being able to swap batteries too. Samsung you messed it up! I'm happy being able to regain full power in 1 minute!

Posts: 35; Member since: Jan 04, 2015

posted on Mar 01, 2015, 9:08 PM 0

Posts: 1276; Member since: Mar 22, 2014

Samsung CEO says :
''Yeah, 32 GB with no expansion slot will be a SMART business move, and Let's make a 64 and 128gb variants as well, so that people who's into photography and movies will surely get them, it's worth the premium! Just look at Apple, we follow the same formula, people don't really care if they'd spend a couple of hundred dollars for the extra storage space!''
#YOU'REWRONG......smh

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